Need help or explanation on my site!
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My site has suffered greatly since the recent Google update.
I have done everything as suggested. I have had all bad links removed over 2 months ago. I have lowered keyword density (not easy since the keyword is in our company name!). I have rewritten various content and bolstered our existing content.
What gives? What can I do?
As an example the keyword, "maysville plumber" - I rank about 40th for this keyword. The first three pages are filled with websites with literally NO content or no added value. Maysville is a town of about 1k residents - there is no competition. Before the update I was #1 for years on this particular keyword. And this is the case with 35 other cities (mostly small cities, but a few larger ones).
Please help me understand or suggest what I can possibly do at this point. We have hundreds of pages of unique content on each and every page. We have zero duplicate content (I have ran tests and crawlers). We have no fishy links. I have not gotten any messages from google on Webmasters.
PLEASE HELP!!
I asked a similar question a little while back and fixed all of the suggestions.
My site is www.akinsplumbing.net.
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first of all dont panic. don't make any crazy adjustments.
step one: breathe.
step two: edit your meta description that sounds natural to someone in maysville will want to click on.
step three: edit the h1 and h2 as per instructed in my first post
step 4: add your website to any maysville directories or whatever county or state that it's in, specifying Maysville.
step 5: join a Maysville community forum and be involved. Let them know what services are available to the residents.
step 6: repeat for the other keywords you want.
step 7: realize if you have 100s of keywords, narrow that down and cater to those keywords or make them broad enough to where you can at least land on the first page for all of them.
step 8: create a google plus page for your website. Just one, and create the content stating you cater to said areas ie..maysville,smallsville,gotham,metropolis, etc..
step 9: wait a few weeks to be re-indexed.
step 10: relax and enjoy the seomoz community.
Edit your content to not have Maysville as the main word in a seoquake tag cloud. if you dont know or use seoquake check it out. google it.
I understand you are being outranked by others with little or zero content, but what are they also doing that you're not? If they are not back linking, could they be on directories?
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Thanks for the responses. I am still looking for feedback on my issues.
What do you recommend my step is from here? This is not the only keyword I am having trouble with. There are over 100 that are the exact same problem. I have written great quality content for each and every page, yet I am out ranked by directory websites with zero links, zero content, F grades, etc etc.
Really need help here or advice.
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| Meta Description | maysville plumber, maysville plumbing, plumber in maysville ga, maysville septic, maysville septic pumping, maysville leak detection, maysville ga plumb | 152 |
| Meta Keywords | plumbing, plumber, plumbers, atlanta plumber, atlanta plumbing, septic tank service, leak detection, akins, plumbing service, plumber service, metro atlanta plumber, metro atlanta plumbing | 188 |
| H1 | Akins Plumbing | 20 |
| H2 | Maysville Plumber & Septic Tank |Your meta description is too robot like. you need to fix your description to read to someone who actually wants your service.
Your h1 tag should be more than two words: Akins Plumbing has been servicing Maysville for past 25 years<that's decent.="" replace="" that="" where="" your="" h2="" is.<="" p=""></that's>
H2 should be Our Services Include:
You bold Maysville way too much, in a sense overkill. I'd recommend removing those big bold words, since people do get the point that you provide plumbing services to Maysville.
Other things I've noticed:
No Googles Place Page
No Google + page
Do you have twitter? i saw facebook.
Your content looks great!
Except for the fact that Maysville seems to be in every sentence. People get the point it's for Maysville from the first paragraph, guess what, so does google. Cut back on that.
just a few sugguestions: you will need to back link, you don't any on OSE. I've noticed alot of your competition are just directory websites. You may want to look into that as a resource.
Run SeoMoz Reports on your keywords and your website. And pay close attention to the results.
For Maysville Plumber your grade was an A. However there are some fixes you might want to look at.
http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization
there's the link.
well there's me spending 10 mins or lessof my time helping you out.:)
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I asked a similar question a little while back and fixed all of the suggestions.
Diagnosing panda and penguin problems on a site with many years of history and deciding what to do about them is really really difficult.
One of the dangers of asking in a forum is people tend to shoot from the hip with BS and partial knowledge and not enough time to..... study the site thoroughly, ask you all of the necessary questions needed to understand the SEO history of your site, write the book that is needed to educate you about the problem, and then give all of the advice needed to give you a shot at fixing your problem with no guarantees.
Penguin and panda are complex problems. Expert advice requires a lot of careful work done by a person who understands them. That is why you see very little "expert" advice in forums for fixing panda and penguin problems - at least that's my opinion.
In my opinion, the solution to your problem is going to involve detailed consulting and serious painful work on your part to get it solved. You could be advised to do the near impossible work of cleaning a link profile or the heartbreaking work of dumping (or noindexing) reams of treasured content.
If this site is important to you I would recommend hiring a professional who fully understands panda / penguin problems, can spend the time needed to understand your site and has the guts to give you advice that will make you wince.
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To elaborate on the 'maysville plumber' example above.
The page that is optimized for that keyword is: http://www.akinsplumbing.net/maysville-plumbing.html
I have taken the trouble to get unique pictures for each city, have a unique map picture and write a minimum of 750 words of unique content per city.
I mean seriously...what else can I do?
I am not being out ranked because a city of 1,000 has over SEO'd pages all over the place. The 38 pages ahead of me have zero links back, zero PR, zero content, etc.
Am I being ninja penalized site wide?
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